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At Best Startup UK we track over 130,000 UK startups and over 500,000 people who hold key positions in these companies. We use this directory of startups to highlight top employees, founders and board members we think deserve more appreciation than they are currently getting.
This list showcases the top United Kingdom based Founder operating in the Virtualization space. If you think a Founder is missing from this list, feel free to contact our editor on editor@beststartup.co.uk.
The individuals on this list have been included because of exceptional performance in one of the following categories:
- Innovation – Operating as a key part in an extremely innovative business or startup.
- Growth – Operating as a key figure in the growth and upscale of a market leading business or startup.
- Management – Showing exceptional management skills.
- Societal impact – Putting their business on the map for their positive societal or environmental impact.
Our Data – We source our data from OSINT (open source intelligence) and public directories such as Companies House UK, Crunchbase, SemRush and many more. The data from these sources should be treated with a degree of caution and verified yourself.
Andrius Kazlauskas
Founder & CFO of Heficed
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About Heficed, IPXO: Heficed provides full-range services for IP lease, monetization, and management services.
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Matt Farmer
Co-Founder and GM Europe of Sendachi
Matt Farmer is the Founder at Ox Ventures.
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About Future Worx, Ox Ventures, Sendachi: Sendachi is a technology and services company specializing in DevOps, Continuous Delivery, and transformational programs.
Vidrih Zlatko
Co-Founder of Go Touch VR
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About Go Touch VR: Go Touch VR is a haptic design company formed by experts in the field developing innovative solutions for virtual and augmented reality.
Jeff Orr
Founder, Chairman & Managing Director of Stack Group
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About Stack Group: The Stack Group provide a comprehensive range of IT services and solutions.
Julian Chesterfield
Founder and CEO of Sunlight.Io
Julian Chesterfield, founder and CEO of Sunlight, has worked in the cloud and virtualisation industry for over 15 years. After completing his PhD at Cambridge University, he became involved in writing a technology called Xen, which became the foundation of the public cloud back in 2007 when it was adopted by Amazon and most of the emerging public cloud infrastructure providers of the day.
Julian began Sunlight as an incubation project in 2013 to build a lightweight hypervisor for low-power Arm processors. On seeing its value for data-intensive applications at the Edge, Julian and the founding team built it into a full hyperconverged infrastructure stack – Sunlight. Sunlight secured $6m in Series A funding in December 2020 and has gone on to launch new products, including the Sunlight Infrastructure Manager (SIM) and Marketplace.
Julian previously held positions at OnApp, as Chief Scientific Officer, and Citrix, as Storage Architect
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About Sunlight.Io: Sunlight.io makes running and managing applications and infrastructure at the edge as easy as in the cloud. Sunlight works with efficient, ruggedized edge hardware – so you can consolidate all of your in-location edge applications with full isolation, security and high availability.
Daniel Cave
Founder of Inconf
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About Inconf: Inconf is a software company that develops digital platforms to enhance live streaming and networking for users.
Mat Clothier
CEO, CTO and Founder of Cloudhouse Technologies
Mat Clothier, CEO, CTO & Founder of Cloudhouse Technologies, has over 20 years’ industry experience. He started his first business whilst at university, providing CIO services to SMEs in the South West of England, and has since founded multiple organisations focusing on provisioning enterprise IT solutions. Mat is an expert in enterprise IT technology, virtualization and distributed management of applications, and devotes his time to developing solutions that simplify user access to modern enterprise IT applications. Mat is a motoring enthusiast and enjoys experimenting with new technologies. His focus is on producing IT solutions that make users’ lives easier, a promise that Cloudhouse Technologies constantly works towards. Mat graduated from the University of Plymouth with a BSc Hons in Computer Systems and Networks.
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About Cloudhouse Technologies: Cloudhouse Technologies is an infrastructure software vendor that liberates client and server applications to run on operating systems.
Chris Morris
CTO & Co-Founder of Atlas Cloud
Chris Morris is a CTO & Co-Founder at Atlas Cloud.
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About Atlas Cloud: Atlas Cloud are a leading provider of cloud IT services based in Newcastle.
